Mindfulness is the process of actively noticing new things … When you do that, it puts you in the present. It makes you more sensitive to context and perspective. It’s the essence of engagement.
. . Wallace J. Nichols – Blue Mind

Sometimes innovation is not technology, not machines, and not anything material. Sometimes it is a thing of the spirit, a core belief and strength. And sometimes it is gained through loss, grief, and painful self-examination.
. . Rod Pyle — Innovation the NASA Way

Despite the challenge of low budgets and risk aversion, thoughtful innovation does ascend through the system. There is always time later to rein in ideas to fit budget and schedule parameters. But if you don’t go large at the beginning, you will never achieve greatness.
. . Rod Pyle — Innovation the NASA Way

You should forget your successes but not your failures.
. . Bertolt Brecht

Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
. . Albert Einstein